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January 22, 2013

Angela Merkel's Nightmare

Der Spiegel, Der Spiegel

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Things couldn't be going worse for Angela Merkel's Christian Democrats. The slim center-left victory in Lower Saxony bodes poorly for the conservative coalition in federal elections this autumn. Now the fight for the Chancellery will get more brutal than the incumbent German leader had imagined.

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TAGGED: Christian Democratic Union, Lower Saxony, Angela Merkel, Germany, Eurozone, Europe

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